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From the Dewan, or Prime Minister, and from Babaji Rao, the Maharajah's secretary, Tutor Ackerley learned much native common sense, much native lore that he scatters rather indiscriminately throughout his book. His own pupil he saw apparently only once, but he was pestered nearly to death by his tutor Abdul who, despite profuse apologies, was always "boring upon" his time. When the day of departure came, however, he was half sad to leave these queer Hindus. They, with their queer illogic, hit the nail of his experience on the head: "Four days of moonlight-then darkness," say they...
...diligent effort, she found Tutor "larkson looking over her shoulder. "How long have you been studying?" asked he. She replied: "Since this'morning." "It looks it," observed Tutor Clarkson. Last week Painter Clarkson went to Mrs. Mc-Cormick's exhibition, found that in the last two decades his onetime pupil had learned much. She had studied under William Penhallow Henderson and several lesser teachers. When the Spanish painter Sorolla visited Chicago he used Mrs. McCormick's easels & brushes, let her watch him work. But from the time she married Col. McCormick in 1915 (after divorcing Mr. Adams) until last year...
...mold his mind into stern channels the young Prince received as his first tutor General Nogi, famed for his bloody capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...
...Pupil...
...hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best I can." Pupil and teacher left arguing, taking $5,000 in a briefcase...